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species
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SPECIES
1
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic <a music that is now generally regarded as a distinct species of rap>
Synonyms bracket, category, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type
Related Words description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort; branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety; breed, race; generation; heading, label, title
2
a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common <in the late 1960s there emerged a new species of actor: edgy and not conventionally handsome>
3
human beings in general <the future of the species may well depend on our willingness to limit the impact of an ever-increasing population>
Related Words community, society; crowd, masses, mob, populace, proletariat, rabble, rabblement, riffraff
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